When my friend came to me to take over at my work area, she said she was going to replace me. I told her that I was irreplaceable. She first took it as me joking that I was too good for her to take over where I was located; however, I said it again. I am irreplaceable. You are irreplaceable. No one is replaceable.
I worked jobs where I was a number. The boss said that he didn’t care if we came or went because he could always have us replaced. We didn’t matter. We had our licenses. We had our certifications. We could have a nice resume. In the end, we were simply a number and there was always someone else to fill our shoes if he decided to take our position away.
With God, you are irreplaceable. Now don’t get boastful. Don’t get puffed up over this statement. It doesn’t mean that God needs you. It doesn’t mean that you are better than anyone else. It means that God has a purpose for your life. He has something that only you and you alone, can do in this lifetime. So you are irreplaceable. You are beautiful. You are priceless. You are important. Jesus spoke about going after one sheep though the 99 were safe. We each have been the one sheep. Each one of us matter. You, my friend, are irreplaceable.
“If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them gets lost, what will he do? Won’t he leave the ninety-nine others in the wilderness and go to search for the one that is lost until he finds it?” – Luke 15:4 [NLT]
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